In the good old days of “The Real Opera(TM)” there was one feature for lazy people like me that I heavily used: The Space Bar! I can hear you saying “The space bar is no feature, it is a key on the keyboard!” but […]
Author: quhno
Some quick Vivaldi Javascript hacks to add additional functions
Warning: Do not apply this code to a current version of Vivaldi. It will not work anymore because the Vivaldi code has changed! As follow-up to the previous entry about Hacking the CSS, this time we add some new functions to Vivaldi. The […]
Some quick Vivaldi panels CSS hacks for better readability or accessibility
Deprecated. While the basic technique would still work, too much has changed in the new Versions of Vivaldi and now we have Themes. While I generally like the design idea that stands behind behind Vivaldi, I have some problems with it. I don’t know […]
“Du” vs “Sie” – oder: Wie förmlich darf’s denn sein?
Note for English speaking readers: It is about the differences in addressing people, formal or informal, in the German translation of https://vivaldi.com and if we should use the formal (but not unfriendly) “Sie”, or the personal “Du”. I know, this is easy for you, […]
Sometimes You Might Not Need jQuery
While I was idly surfing through the web I stumbled over an older blog post from 2011 that featured Earthquakelet, a bookmarklet that lets you experience the funny side of an earthquake by shaking the contents of the window. (Disclaimer: Real earthquakes are no […]
Deadline
Beware of the Yes, it is an SVG image 😀 It seems that Firefox and Internet Explorer have a problem with raw SVG code as image source. I had to URL encode it (base64 would have worked too, but it is about […]
PO2JSON converter for Vivaldi translation purposes
Outdated. Use André’s online converter instead. You can find it here: https://an-dz.github.io/PurePO2JSON/ Translating Vivaldi was always a bit difficult when it came to string lengths or if we needed to see exactly where the string is and if it is the right one in that […]
Some useful JavaScript snippets or libraries found in the net
Image related Find the most dominant color in an image ColorFinder, License: WTFPL Similar to above but a bit heavier Color Thief, License: CC BY 2.5 EXIF and IPTC data viewer exif-js, License: MIT Debugging Debug inside of the Chromium dev tools console deb.js, […]
CSS beautifier
I confess that am a messy coder when it comes to formatting. I edit, insert and delete until the code runs like I want to. This often leads to perfectly readable code – for machines, but not for other humans – so if I […]
“Any man who would letterspace lowercase would steal sheep.”
The headline is rumored to be a quote from the German Typographer Erik Spiekermann paraphrasing American Typographer Frederic W. Goudy‘s Any man who would letterspace blackletter would shag sheep. Dear web page designers! Whoever told you differently: letter-spacing: -1px or -2px is no good […]
